Motivation is a prominent issue in the educational area due to its importance to the
teaching/learning process. It is through motivation that the students start and finish
their studies, facing the difficulties that appear during this path, mainly when it comes
to college education, where the barriers increase and highly challenge the
undergraduate students in their university trajectory. Thus, the aim of this monograph
is to investigate the motivational aspect of the undergraduate students of the
Portuguese/English Language Education Course of the Federal University of Amapá–
UNIFAP. In addition, this work investigates the possible causes of their demotivation,
shows the kinds of motivation that exist and are applied to the teaching area, the
current studies about this topic, and outlines a profile of the English language learner
of this referred institution towards the motivational area. Therefore, bibliographic and
field researches were carried out, and this last one is a qualitative approach research,
that uses methods and techniques of the Ethnographic Research, allowing the use of
the of the data collection instruments obtained from the students of the
Portuguese/English Language Education Course of UNIFAP as well as from the
coordination office of this referred course. These procedures were utilized in order to
show an overview of the reality of the undergraduate students regarding their English
Language learning, bringing along important contributions, not only to the professors
but also to the students of this public university teaching institution.
|
